Even while slavery existed, Americans debated slavery. Was it a profitable and healthy institutio...

Most books about Britain's transport history have concentrated upon canals and railways. It is no...

Over the past thirty years family history has been one of the most important and controversial gr...

The Irish Famine of 1846-50 was one of the great disasters of the nineteenth century, whose notor...

The Irish Famine of 1846-50 was one of the great disasters of the nineteenth century, whose notor...

The rise of Japan from a position of relative international obscurity in the mid-nineteenth centu...